From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 2 08:50:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA08248 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:50:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08241 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA03752; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:46:59 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09643; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:53:46 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199604021653.SAA09643@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: IOMEGA Zip Drives To: martin@tdc.on.ca (Martin Renters) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:53:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604021510.KAA01506@tdc.on.ca> from "Martin Renters" at Apr 2, 96 10:10:19 am Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Has anyone gotten these drives to work under 2.1-stable? I've got > a client that has one, but we seem to be unable to make a filesystem > on it (it dies on the disklabel). It seems to work OK for tar though. > (This is the SCSI model). I have mine running under 2.1-R. Here is my disktab entry: iomega|ZIP Drive: \ :ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:se#512:nt#64:ns#32:nc#96:rm#3600:\ :pc#196608:oc#0: \ :pe#196608:oh#0:bh#4096:fh#512:th=4.2BSD: You may also get the newer disklabel and use the auto feature. Did you successfully fdisk it? I don't recall what parameters I gave there. > > Thanks. > > Martin > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de